Video: Edgar Mitchell - Interviews with the men on the moon

Despite a glittering Navy career which culminated in his selection for Nasa,
Edgar Mitchell maintained a secret passion which he took all the way to the
moon, when he took his first lunar steps on the Apollo 14 mission, January
14, 1971.

Always a paranormal enthusiast, he covertly conducted Extra Sensory Perception tests with friends back on Earth.

Once back on this planet Captain Mitchell became increasingly outspoken on the subject of aliens, claiming first that he was 90 per cent sure they existed, then that the Roswell incident was real and that the US government is secretly testing alien bodies.

He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout.

Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena.

In 1973, he founded the nonprofit Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to research into consciousness research and psychic events.

He has said that he is: "90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets" and that UFOs have been the "subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out".